Talkin' Baseball (MLB Podcast) - 422 | Braves Take a 3-1 Lead

Episode Date: October 31, 2021

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Hello and welcome to talking baseball. Game 4 of the World Series Braves 3-1 lead in Atlanta. Trevor Plouffe. Hello and welcome to talking baseball. A spooky World Series edition. My name is I'm the boy and John Boy. That's what I tell people talking Jake. Trevor Plouf out getting nasty in Calabassey,

BBD behind the ones and two. The John Bino will be joining us in a minute or two. Is he giving birth? I don't know. It's tough to say. We don't know. We're not going to jump to conclusions. Giving birth real quick. He'll be back in five. Yeah. So we'll... People in the chat are saying, Jacket, Twitter, killed them.

Yeah, that's true. That was tough to see. Tough. Dude's down bad when jacket Twitter comes after you. We are coming live from the Draft King studio out here in the BX, the boogie down Bronx, raise up. Trevor, how are you doing, my good man? 3-1, Atlanta, a chance to close it out tonight, World Series. Your Braves.

Before we get to that, I need to address something. Sure. this is serious okay okay yesterday there's this umpire in my in my little league okay technically we pay pony baseball but i just referred to it as little league there's an umpire there young kid stickler for the rules he's made me do a lot of silly stuff i'm like what are you talking about always calling me out making me do these silly silly rules so yesterday he showed up to the game and i saw his eyes i said that you don't look like you got much rest he said i was out to 1 a.m. Wow. And I said, listen, that's all good and dandy, but it's showtime. You better show up.

You mess some stuff up today and be all over you. Sure enough, the kid messed some stuff up. I got all over him. And then afterwards, I was talking, this is where it gets bad. Afterwards, I was talking to his little umpire buddy. These kids are 14 years old, by the way. That's what was going to be my question. This is a kid? They're 14. They're 14, 14, 15, 16. I don't know. That that looked the same to me. I was talking to his other umpire buddy. I said, hey, get, get, get that kid, you know, put a leash on him, you know. He's, he's coming at me.

I'm going to come at him. But then the supervisor, the umpire supervisor, I was just joking, but he overheard me. Oh, boy. And I saw, as I was walking out, the supervisor talking to that young kid umpire. So basically, I'm just a tattletale. Yeah. P-O-S, and I want to apologize on air. I didn't want that to happen.

It's just boys being boys back and forth, and then somebody unfortunately overheard me. I think you got a talking to. You became the monster. You didn't want to become. And yeah, I mean, you telling that story, because I think everyone was hoping the umpire was not a 14-year-old kid, and then you stated that they were.

I had flashbacks to the home run derby this year, When you and those, you and those kids just, like, talk trash to each other for a while. It's basically what happens every Saturday morning. So you kind of just trash talk 14-year-old boys. Not always. Like, I guess sometimes they need it. I don't know, man. So you're turning that into, like, you're a father figure for them, like, keeping them in place.

Maybe. Daddy Treve Daddy Treve Speaking of daddies Yes How are you Treve how are you feeling about your Your Braves and Six

John Beezzy Jambleazy Hey Spooky Happy Halloween John Trev how you feel about your Braves and Six I don't feel good about it

really seems like they're going to close it out tonight and five and that would just be the ultimate slap in the face right there do you want six still because i was rooting very heavily for you to be bright but now i just want the world series to end because i have a baby on the way and i don't want the astros to win and i think if they win they might win yeah going back to houston's very scary for atlanta i in my mind it's actually played out exactly like at the beginning of the series if I had to choose how the games went, it basically would be exactly how they've gone, especially knowing that four and five were bullpen days.

They win the first one. They got technically like a bad bullpen day coming now, but that's not even really true. But in my mind it is, so. I don't know, man. Did you hear what Rosie said about the $100, if I would have bet? How much it would be worth, James?

How much? And someone in the chat, please do this, because I'm not trusting, Rose and his turkey math. He said $25.6 million. What were the odds? I have no idea. He said some guy gave this to him and he's like, this guy's like, this is what he does. I mean, but I don't, unless you have like an internet machine to go back and look at the what the odds were on March. He did. He said he went back to March 29. That's what that was the closest odds he could find. And it was just to Braves to win the World Series.

in six games and the Astros. Like you had to pick, you know. It's like that exact. That exact scenario. I don't know if it's true. I don't want it to be true, James. I don't think it's true. You think I want that to be true?

I don't, man, I don't know nothing about nothing, but you can't turn $100 into $25 million. That sounds crazy to me too. Thank you for, you know what? I'm actually going to go with James on this. I'm going to go with James on this. Speaking of. Just because it makes me feel better.

What did I place my bet on yesterday? Huge. Oh, yeah, you placed your $100 bet yesterday. Yeah. We placed at the very end, then immediately retracted it right in time for the buzzer. What was it? Rosario home run.

Yeah, I couldn't retract it. Oh, you didn't retract. It didn't let you. He didn't Homer, right? Yeah, I won it. 22 bucks, my way. Whoops. But I lost, I lost 25 because a listener

tweeted me said, Granky under two and a half strikeouts. He's not going to go for longer and they're going to be swinging early and you forget the pitcher hits. Yeah. So we lost that one. Granky.

What an outing by him. Yeah, I was streaming with Joe's. Our guy Joe's McFly last night and there was a point where the Braves come back. We'll talk about it in a minute. And it was like if the Astros can somehow come back, which, hey, it's the Houston Astros, one run. Like, we've seen them do that before.

Like, the fact that it could have been a tied series if they came back just would have been so weird. It feels like they've been getting dominated. And that's kind of what you're saying, Jim. Like, if they find a way tonight and bring it back to Houston, it's like, okay. Two in H-Htown, Funky Town, Space City, NASA City, Kelsey Wingard, baseball town.

Do you say it feels like the Braves are being dominated or the Astros? The Astros are being dominated. A-Rod, I know I disagree with A-Rod all the time. Rod. But, and I guess I'll ask before I should on A-Rod. Because I had said this when I called into the live stream, but Trev, I'll ask you and Jake. A-Rod said it felt like the Astros were dominating that game, the entire game. But they only had a one-run or two-run lead.

And I couldn't have disagreed more. into the chat and I said, isn't it weird that the Astros have more runs, but the Braves are winning this game? Like I felt almost the exact opposite, the entire game. And when the Braves scored, it was like, okay, yeah, that now it actually adds up to what this game has felt like. So I don't know if I, there's not really wrong or right here. I guess just how you interpret the game. I'm interested here what you guys think on that. I thought just the way the series is gone, like if you're up early like you go on to hold the lead this didn't happen to last night so i i didn't feel like the braves were for sure going to win that game i also didn't feel like

the astros had you know a firm grasp on it either so i think all throughout this series we've been saying the same thing it's just so hard to predict these games especially because they've all been so freaking close i mean i know there's been the seven to two game but we had a two nothing now a three two like they're just so evenly matched and these Bullpens have been good, but we're starting to see the effects of like you're getting a second, third look at these guys. I think that's going to come into play today. And that's kind of why I think Houston's offense does get going today.

I know Tucker Davidson will be new for them. And when did Minter pitch game two? I think he was, he was what, 42 pitches, game one, I think. Game one? Yeah, I don't know. I never felt like the Brace for sure we're going to win or Houston had a firm grasp on that game last night. That's fair.

It's very close game. It's, I think, again, this series feels like Houston's been getting dominated. And it's because, I guess in my head, the guys that you'd expect to be doing it aren't Correa's in a funk. Bregman's useless right now. Like these mighty Astros, yeah, they're just pitching around Yorda. And if he wants to get himself out, allow it. So it's, it's, uh, I don't know. It, it feels like, I mean, Al Tuve, he hits a couple

nice balls last night and it feels like he's in this series. If you know anything about Altuve, he probably homers tonight, maybe make that your, your draft king's bet. But, uh, yeah, I don't know, man. The Astros, the guys you expect to do it kind of aren't. I mean, that Bregman first pitch pop out in the ninth, like, The whole office, the whole office let out this audible like you, dude. Yeah, bad swing. He's actually like, um, uh, Bregman has actually reached a point where I, there was a point until that pop out where I was feeling bad for him.

And I was like, oh my God, dude, come on. Like, I know that you got caught cheating and all this, but like, let's get a little bit of the swagger back. Like, come on. Like, you're so down and out. And then that first. pitch pop up reached a threshold where I was like, dude, get over yourself. Mm.

Like, just fucking play baseball and stop being a sad sack. Like, he's almost like the dying dog commercial. Mm. He's like the Sarah McLaughlin commercial every time he gets in that bat. You think he's that sad? Didn't you see what he's like? The first pitch pop out was this. Did you see what he wore to the World Series?

Treve, it's sad. I mean, it seems sad on the field. And Alex Bregman, costume. He had like a top hat on. He had like a green suit. It was, it was interesting.

There's this, there's this watching episode that Jake and I did. We were watching Family Feud from 1960s or something like that. And then at the end, it was for all pretty mature babies being born at the hospital. And you had to donate to save their lives. And it was like the heaviest, saddest thing.

And that's what the bat yesterday was by Bregman. I was just like, oh. B.BD just put it on the screen. I mean, Buster only tweeted Alex Bregman's postseason stats the last two years this morning wasn't getting a ton of love, so he retweeted himself. So power play moves by Buster only. Strictly power plays.

Let's talk. Let's do the game. Let's do the game. We're already getting into it. I know Trev, everyone wants to know your current MVP vote. But before we do that, we have to talk about our. MVP. It's dugout mugs. Oh, yeah. They've been riding with us through the whole

post season. Christmas is now 55 days away. 55 days away. Trev's holding his knob shot. And guys, there's shipping crises in the world. It's not with our guys dug out mugs. The FedEx, the people that ship stuff, it's why there's no patches on the jerseys. That's what everyone says

I got Mugs holding up their end of the bargain Getting it out of their warehouse Within one to three days The patch companies are getting hit But not the Jersey companies Jim, it was probably the funniest part of the stream We'll get there in a second They said like before the playoffs

Like yep we're not gonna be able to have them Code Jamboy at dugout Mugs.com They are giving their better than Black Friday Deal 35% off They're doing this to get ahead of it. They don't want you reaching out and saying, hey, where's my mug? So they're giving you the best deal they can right now. They have all your favorite teams. They have the metal mug with the spill-proof cap. We need that. I need that. Jake shakes. This hand's just not

steady. Dugout mugs. They make a quality product. It's the perfect gift for any baseball fan. If you're listening to this, you're a baseball fan. So go to dugout Muggs.com, 35% off with code Jom boy. So, yeah. Jim, they genuinely said that because of the shipping stuff is why they don't have patches on the jersey. And Joe's, and only Joe's fashion just goes like, they're Major League Baseball. Like, you can't put a couple patches on the jersey?

And you just MLB would love to be able to sell more jerseys that have the World Series patch on it So it's got to be genuine But yeah I just like don't They tried everything I don't think they tried nothing But

They didn't write anything And you can just like go to the local Lions Club in Atlanta And be like hey We need to get these made You guys stitch there are 40 patches for us And I think they'd be able to do it And selling World

They probably have the capability to do that. They would have made a lot of money, so I would give them the benefit of debt that they tried to. They're going to get pouches and sell the hell out of them. Are you telling me that we're making our patches in China? I just feel you can find a couple old ladies to sew some patches if you wanted patches. They could have figured out something for World Series at least. They don't have those shops in Atlanta? They got them on the hats.

They got the patches on the hats. Feels like if we got Sam, Bill, and some of our parents together, we could supply these. I'm genuinely upset right now. Wait till the end of the episode. Trevor Plouf will do another rant on his relationship with China. Let's do this game. I'm going to burn it? I think so.

Hmm. I think so. Yes. Yes. Jacob Markets at Burn. World Series Game 4. The Astros would throw out future Hall of Famer, hoping Zach has the green key to success

versus the undefeated at home this postseason, Atlanta Braves, and Dylan Lee Harvey Oswald as he tries to not get shot down, making his first ever MLB start. Correa decides he wants to join in on the chop. RBI ground out. It's 1-0. Lee struggled. I'm shocked. Who would Snicker turn to? Kyle was the right call.

How about 4.2-1 earned run from my fellow Vandy man, but the one he did give up, Jose Al-Tuvae, Jose-Altuva, that's a moon blast. We're rich, we're crypto people. It is 2-0-0-Astros after 4 in the 6. This thick, this thick. Unstoppable. He's young. He's so thick.

Austin Riley with the RBI single. It is two to one into the seventh. It tastes just like Dansby. Apo Taco. Another Vandyman. Let's go. We are tied up at twos. Scratch that.

Reverse it. Back to back. Solar Packs. Jorge Soler coming in on the hot boys list. If he doesn't, me and Trev are beefing. And then it's time for the night shift. The Braves bullpen does it again. Matzick to Jackson.

Will Smith gets jiggy on him. The Braves, Truis Park was rocking. They take game four, three two final, and take a three one season. Series leave. So thick. It's just so... It's just so... Oh, what do you got there, Jake?

Where's that from? The bodega? So, this is actually from... I'm supposed to have a Halloween outfit. It's really tricky for me because my life is a Halloween outfit. Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm.

My life... We know that. My life is, like, a bad person dressing up for Halloween. Like, you're like, they don't take it a step farther. I just do that. that 364 days a year. So I was going to pop by one of the Halloween spirit shops this morning. The two addresses that popped up around me, they were gone.

I don't know if they already cleared out, or I don't know if they were old ones. I don't know when those disappear. I would guess they're gone by now. Or they were last years. I saw a line yesterday at a different one, but I wasn't over there. So I was in kind of a diffy part of town. So I got a Brecky Sammy and a coffee there. I said ice coffee, could I get like a little vanilla or something in there?

And the guy said, no flavors. Good. I said, all right. Let's dance. Soft. Coffee. Flavors in your coffee? Soft.

This is black coffee. Jake, Jimmy, do you want to talk about soft or should we just get into the game? I mean, I don't care. It's pretty ridiculous. It's pretty crazy. It's really funny. Sometimes we talk about Twitter stuff and there's people that listen to the show that aren't on Twitter. and don't care about Twitter at all, but I mean, I tweeted out that pitchers wearing jackets is the softest thing.

And dude, this is where it is. It's just like people just look to get mad. Like, I don't think we have ever used the word soft, not ironically. Like, because if you actually go around calling things soft and 100% mean it, I don't know. But people don't know that. They can't infer jokes or lightheartedness or whatever. And there's a whole contingent people just want to get mad at me no matter what I tweet. So I mean, but I didn't think they were going to come at me that hard. They were.

They were ruthless. That was brutal. They started to come at me a little bit. Because I retreated you. I fucking sent them your way. I said that I'm just not as famous as you. So people don't care as much. They're out to get you, man.

It's wild, man. Like I really, if you think about it, James, you're right. We've talked about this so many times. I mean, the pitchers and what they do, especially starters. There's a lot of soft stuff. They pick the jerseys. They pick the music in the clubhouse. They can't run around the bases without getting cold.

It's ridiculous, bro. And it is crazy that they're like, I did it. And we're not taking shots at smolts and Maddicks and Gladwin because those are the exact people I think about when they wear jackets. Like my mind goes back to those guys. It also wasn't 32 degrees out of it was 55. Like, cranky took it off right away because he was like, ass not called.

What are you guys doing? At least like give him like some, you know, like an arm condom. How about that? I'll be okay with that. An arm sleeve. Yeah, something like that. They fucking do it just because they want to feel special. There's no other way.

But there's people out there that genuinely think scientifically him wearing the jacket for three minutes on his body is going to save his arm. even though he stands on the mound in between pitches. That's why I'm here. I want jackets on the mound. I'd like a coat rack behind the pitcher that they could wear in between pitches. Yeah, Jim, you would have liked it when Trev called into the stream last night. He didn't know it was happening yet.

So we broke him in and guard dog Trev came out. And he was like, all right, I got this one. Um, just crazy. And then someone, I did it late. Someone dropped a big word on me about my breakdowns and like our whole fucking like company. And then I dropped it on Travis.

It was like frivolous or something like that. I forget. Frivolity. Frivolity. Frivolity. Yeah. That's when you don't spend a lot of money, but your sperm work.

Yep. Yeah. That's frugility. Okay. Anyway. frivolity everyone like Twitter Twitter used to exist just for that it was only light heart

there might be people that don't know this it was only lightheartedness it was only spur of the moment thoughts that were funny and you weren't to take any of it serious that was like Twitter from 2010 to 2018 and now it's like every time you tweet you're publishing

your thesis paper and you better stand by it because you better believe it 100% is crazy. It's a crazy place. Oh, man. People suck. Let's talk about this game a little bit. Let's talk about it. Trevor, what jumps out?

I mean, in the burn, I didn't give Grinky enough love. He kind of drops it on another postseason start when we didn't know what we were getting another World Series start. Kyle Wright's out and can't get ignored. The bullpen was gross. The back-to-back homers. Where does your brain jump? It's Kyle Wright.

I mean, yeah, Grinky gave him four innings, which is crazy. I said one time through the order, the guy ended up getting two at bats, didn't he? Like, so Grinky did, yeah, Grinky did his job, but Kyle Wright coming into the position that he was put into and then getting out of it with only one run,

striking out Tucker, facing Carlos Correa, the boogeyman in the postseason in big moments. I know he hasn't stepped up in the World Series yet. It doesn't matter. You know everybody was scared of that at bat. gets through it ground ball strikes Tucker out then you know he works his way through some trouble but gives him four and two thirds and the only blemish is the moon balloon to altouvae that was that's the key of the game right there kept kept them in the game and then they got to bring in their good bullpen

the guys they wanted to bring in only for an inning at a time so it saves them for today and then they just they scored some runs that's it man but if they didn't have car right to do it do that, they wouldn't be in that position. So that's that's, that's and snicker said it after the game that, that won us the game. Oh, absolutely. It's, I mean, they just started him. What's this game? There's a different, did he have to like be spurred on in the moment? You never know, but you never know. I mean, then they go to their four dudes. It's pretty cool, pretty cool that I worked out that way for the Braves. The Astros lost when they didn't do anything in the first inning. Yeah.

like they had such a good opportunity there Karey gets the ground out and then who popped up or whatever the next out was it was a strikeout Tucker Tucker's been Kyle on Kyle Crime Mm-hmm you think but even even even Even in the second end he worked out of trouble like he had two runners on One out and like just out two those the the young thick play

Down the line on out two of A Yeah that was nice Nice young thick I mean they were they left 11 on base They were, Astros were 0 for 8 with runners in scoring position. It's crazy. But yeah, I mean, Kyle writes all his good games coming to postseason now. He's got like two really good outings in the postseason.

He's got like four in the last two years, regular season starts. In the playoffs, he had that one like really bad one last year. If you take that out, it's 11.2 winnings, 0.77 R.A. I mean, he had the bad one, but. Braves are in such good shape. I mean, they don't have to use Kyle Wright again. They, they have to win one more game and they have a freed and a Anderson start left. And there are four bullpins just have to do it once more.

So for the Houston to win, they got to beat those four guys in the back end and they haven't yet. I mean, really good spot. But I mean, Houston does scare me if you go back home. If they get it to three, two, and then you go home is my beloved Yankees were in that. spot and they they couldn't do it. So I have I have PTSD you guys that's right you do root for the Yankees every now and then they're all on vacation right now they uh judge has a goatee it's a weird time Yankees facial hair season oh Jim doesn't like it looks kind of like an evil guy kind of he does it looks like a costume yeah

Maybe it is. Maybe he's getting his Ted Lassau on like everyone else. Man, the name that I can't get out of my head is Will Smith. He's had a perfect postseason, 10 appearances, no-earned runs. I think the crew that's done that, it's like him, Mariano, I think Rosenthal did it, like last year or something like that. Not sure who the other one is. That Brantley at bat was awesome.

You know, I don't want to push too many people to get off our show and watch sequence, but if that ends up there, I might encourage that. Eight pitch at bat, Michael Brantley looks locked in. I mean, you've just got this beautiful mix of sliders, then a big hook curve, and what does he end it with? He freezes him with a fastball on the outside corner when Brantley had to be sitting off speed. Will Smith had the perfect postseason.

It's supposed to be their weak spot. They're showing up. The night shift, baby. Do we have shirts out yet? Talk to our graphics team yesterday. We're working on it. The night shift is really cool. Is it so cool that it's had to have been used already by a bullpen?

Because it's kind of perfect for a bullpen. I don't think so. I think bullpins are still so new in baseball, like history. when you think about it. Certainly on a team with like a deep playoff run like this, I feel like it's the first. Should there's other bullpins that have referred to themselves that way. They got, I don't know, the Brazier are just,

they're set up to go for the jugger there today too. I mean, they got Tucker and Minter to give them some length, and then they can throw those, they can throw Jackson, Matzick, and Will Smith again today. Because they have the, if things go bad today, they have the off day tomorrow. Like I fully expect Snicker to unload the clip. Night shift all over him.

Yeah, Daddy Minter, the only one that didn't pitch last night, they could empty the chamber with him. More on this one, A, the back-to-back homers, got to talk about that. Javier gets hit, and he's supposed to be kind of Houston's weapon out of the pen. The slider kind of wasn't sliding. Danesby goes Apococo. And then in back-to-back innings, you have Yordaun who, Trev, we talked about this on the live stream,

so he'll get Jom's thoughts first on it. Yordaun comes close to Robin that home run. He's a monster of a man. He's not a traditional left-fielder. So that opens up some conversation. And then Eddie Rosario, the next inning, look what I found. That catch was pretty wild. So, Jim, right, do you think Yorda, do you think any left?

Do you think plus plus left fielders had a shot at that ball? Do you think average left fielders have a shot at that ball? I don't know. To even like have that conversation is kind of rude to your don. It's over the fence. Yeah. This isn't shots fired at your don. It's just a baseball conversation.

No. I mean, it's over the fence. It's over the fence by like three feet. I don't think anyone has a shot at it. Really? Okay. I said a 5% It would it be like It would be like

Yeah I would go 5% or less And it was over the fence And his arm was up And it was over his arm Like I didn't think it was catchable In any way Okay

That's that's for some people That's a very hot take Well I think there's people That try to get mad Like that You're on should Like try to like act like You're on's bad

For not getting it Which I think is very rude Yeah that's rude We're not doing that here So we don't have to go there but I think a Joey Gallo, I think a mooky bets. I think a plus defender does snag that ball. I mean, Jordan Alvarez was very close,

and he's not out there for his defense in any way. It'd be like a fucking poster of a catch. It'd have to be like, it's a world series. I mean, that's what people do. I think if you tee that up in batting practice and tell them it's going to be there, then like, yeah, that catch can be made, but no, I don't. There's a fucking line drive. That was 107 off the bat.

Yeah. No. I was impressed your Don't got there. I guess that's what I'm saying. Jake, we know you might have made the catch. We've seen you and your blitzball prowess going after fly balls. Maybe you get there, but you're what, Jake? You're built. I'm built iffy.

That's understandable. Yeah, I don't know. I guess the way you guys are depicting it, I do think it's a little more of a conversation. I definitely, and for Houston, it's a moot point anyways, because it's Brantley and your Don. so their options, I don't think, would have had a shot at that ball. But I don't know.

You know, we've seen Eddie Rosario make some wild plays this postseason and how close Yordon was to it. I know he's a massive man. I know they're playing deep. Everyone plays deep these days. I think if it was someone more inclined defensively, I think there's a fun conversation to be had there. Um, that being said, Javier, don't hang it to Soler, hot boy of all hot boys.

Scared to throw his fastball because Danesby just took that deep. So then he tripled up the slider and Soler took that deep. It's actually a good at bat by Saler because he, he threw a nasty slider. So there swung so big at it that they both kind of made the correct correction. The next pitch. So it was one one at that point. The next pitch, Javier goes, all right, he's swinging at the slider. out of the zone. I'll throw another one. And he buries one kind of middle, but down.

Good pitch by Javier. And so Lair, he makes the correction. He's like, all right, hold up. Let's not swing that big at these sliders anymore if they're not like right in the middle. So he spits on it. It was kind of cool to see, um, that play out. And then I was like, was he going to go back to the fastball? Cause Danesby just hit it and he clearly likes the slider better because he threw three in a row to Danesby too. And he threw a very bad slider. I mean, it just didn't no bite and right in the heart of the plate. And so there brings his a swing again. It was a cool sequence.

The middle pitch I thought was actually good baseball by both. And then Salar just, then he just hangs one. Yeah, I mean, the fastball was okay. I was just right down the middle to dance be, you know? Yeah, they were doing that all game. I was treating it out. But I think small an auto because it was every pitcher. Mayton did it.

I used two examples in the break. down I made, but that was definitely their plan. It's kind of how Granky pitches, but it's almost like Maldonado was like, well, hey, it worked. Let's just keep doing it because Mayton did it. At one point, Granky got 02 on Freddie Freeman, then tried to bust him with a fastball. The at bat before Duval, before Dansby had him two strikes and tried to go fastball right middle, but it was bottom of the zone. And it got called a ball, but they were looking to freeze him with that fastball there.

So that was definitely Astros, Maldonado, whatever, their game plan was to freeze them, strike three fastball. And Dansvia did not get frozen. I think that's definitely a Maldonado thing. He likes to work backwards, if you will, like that. Grinky was like, I think I've told the story on this show before, but first time I faced Grinky, I'm like, what's all the hype about? Like I saw the ball really well off him and maybe it was an off day or something. and then I saw him again the next time and he absolutely just diced us up

and he was on that day and it looked different than any other pitcher like the ball was moving different like the visual was different like he was able to put pitches where like other guys like consistently where other guys can't do it and he mixed pitches up differently

and everything was moving and that's what it looked like last night like he was he was nasty and he doesn't have obviously his a plus stuff anymore but it's just the way that he presents pitches and then where they end up it's his sequencing is weird it's just a really strange bat against him and he's been able to you know basically reinvent himself without you know all the stuff the V-Lo that he had before yeah he's fun they asked him if he wanted to keep playing and he was like um

I don't want to answer that question. You see something, man. It's funny. Yeah, he's, I mean, the stuff is fun. I mean, the curveball and the power change. The fastball doesn't impress you anymore, but he cuts it, and he's grunting, and he's throwing off your timing with that little hesitation.

Like, it's a fun watch. Anything else from this one? He's so weird that Ozzy Albi's hit right-handed against him. Yeah, and struck out and made us lose my bet. Damn. The Rosario catch is just hilarious. It's just like, yeah, Braves have a little bit of the magic going on there because that's a ball that he'd misplayed.

And then, you know, you play that a hundred times. He doesn't take that route or that effort. It's just like a last second. And then they're like, oh, yeah. Got it. He looked good, man. He looked like he did exactly what he wanted to do there. And it's just, you're right.

It looks like there's a magnet. Yeah. It looks like, it looks like angels in the outfield. Like an angel just like grabbed his arm and outstretched it towards the ball. I think Matthew, he didn't have the same clip. Yeah.

And in live time, I thought he was turning his body to square up with the wall to try to like play it off the wall. And then he just throws up that hand and look what I found. Awesome stuff. Awesome stuff. Who's the MVP right now? Austin, Ryan. That was two separate thoughts.

Who's the MVP? And then Austin Riley with a big double and fun slide in the second. Were my two other comments. That slide was fun. I don't know. We did the MVP talk around the office after the game. And A, remind me of this next year, I want to do live constant MVP updates, like every half inning, who is the current World Series MVP.

man like Soler has a good argument and he's barely been a starter for them. Rosario has an argument but it's also a continuation. Darno's in the mix. I mean, honestly, if I got a vote right now and I think we will have a deciding play if the Braves win, you know, the fourth game of the series to get it, you know, whether Darno, Soler, Eddie has another big game. as of today, I think I'd go Will Smith, man. Yeah.

Yeah. I mean, if you just look at like stats, if they don't take into account moments and the drama of the moments, which I think you have to in the World Series, darnos, Darno's got five hits, two homers, and like the highest slash line. So, I don't know.

Who would you guys pick? There's no hitter that's standing out. Yeah. Darno's also had a couple of errors and throwing the ball away. I think you give it to Smith. That's got to be a pitcher. Give it to Smith and you tell them, share this with the boys, actually, though.

The night shift. Night shift MVP. Wow. What was the Reds bullpen nickname? Nasty boys. Nasty boys. Nasty boys. That was also our, when we first added Trev.

The only thing that could happen. Yes. Is if Ion has to pitch a game seven. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Other than that, yeah. I think it's got to be Will Smith.

I mean, yeah. It's kind of strange. There's really no one that's really stood out. Maybe tonight we get somebody. It's a little interesting. Like, Jackson's thrown more innings, Minter's thrown more innings, Matt's thrown more innings than Smith,

but obviously Smith is a different role. I have something half mean to say. Say it. Yeah. Will Smith, the pitcher, has the perfect mix of like, I think fuck you with, overconfident meets, I don't want to say dumb, but just like,

aloof. Kind of, like, not giving a shit, but he gives so much shit. Like, Will Smith feels like the kind of guy that's a, like, I don't know, I could see him throwing the opposite of, like, what Darno puts down sometimes just to be like, screw you, man. All right, I have something that I think adds to what you're saying on his vibe of how what he had his mound presence. And this might be mean,

might not. It's a little Eli Manning, and I love Eli. And some other people I know that look like him where Jake, it looks like if you ask Will Smith any question, the first sound out of his mouth is, uh,

and then he answers. Okay. He's a little panhandle Eli. I like that. I think it's more like, ting. You know, like he's one of those guys, man.

Why are you saying? Do that again. Ting. You know, like, I don't know what you're talking. He's thrown in a tinner in the Wild West. Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh. A guy spitting in the barrel. I like that.

He actually looks like someone, uh, every time I see him that, I'll tell you afterwards, I guess, because I don't want to say it on the show. Okay. Okay. Well, I don't think they'd be offended. Before we talk a little bit more about tonight's game, could I tell you guys about Blitzball really quickly? I love Blitzball.

Me and Jimmy are professional Blitzball players. That's a fact. And if you've seen it on our back alley at bats, we had a hilarious one last week with the We Got Ice Guys. You guys baseball fans might know them from TikTok or Instagram, Twitter. It's so silly, so fun, good content, too. They're so ugly. So ugly.

They are too ugly. Which is their downfall. Shout out Zoh and Jack. We had a lot of fun. A lot of fun with that. Stop being so ugly. If you have no idea what Blitzball is, it's kind of like the modern Wiffle. It's the creator spent a ton of time.

Similar to John Boy growing up when he was playing Wiffleball, he's like, how do I juice this up a little bit? I want to throw the payload. And so he spent hours and tried different designs until they finally came up with the Blitzball ball. It's a lot of fun. You can make it dance. You really have to throw it.

After me and Jimmy play, we basically have to sit. it out a full rotation start. Go check out Blitzball's YouTube channel to get into it. They have some real professionals that play. They've had MLB guys come through. Kyle Tucker, Nick Swisher, some other dudes. Really good stuff over there. So go follow them on YouTube, social media.

Michael Givens. Yes, that Michael Givens bullpen. Could be coming to your bullpen soon. I think he's a free agent. In Tampa, they're holding their tournament, the 8th and 9th. 9th. Jake. Winning teams get a chance to compete.

We might have to go. Jake. Yeah. We played three. We announced it. Tom Ace in the chat came and said hi to us. One, the location we played indoors.

Well, full disclosure for the Back Allibet's fans. If you're not Back Allibet's fans, I guess you can head out. But I'm talking about this. We, this was like the end of this season. We're taking,

like a two month, maybe two and a half month hiatus from playing. Yeah. The gap in between videos will only be like a month or two months because we have them queued up through Christmas. But anyway, Jake, I have never played. And maybe it's, I've never played. And the way that the pitches were moving the fastball in that facility, I'm itching to play after play.

Usually my arm is, and my arm is tired and I'm sore. But I, uh, I, uh, I, like feel like it still got like a lot of testosterone about it like I really want to I really want to like go play I'm that location was cool and uh and this and then another note the episode that comes out this Wednesday has a play. Hmm that will be like in any highlight video we make. Yeah. Of like great moments in Blitzball history. Yeah. It's true. Wow. That's true. It does. Okay. Yeah. Well, boys, I think I have to let you tee it up the rest of the way.

Jess is kind of going to kill me. Get out of here, Jake. You've been holding us. What else do we have? What else do we have to cover? See, uh, live stream tonight. We've got to figure that out. I'll be here.

We'll get somebody else. Maybe LeBron comes through. I don't know. We don't know. Get Sonny the doorman. Sonny the doorman. I'll see you guys. Love you.

Love you. Bye, Jake. I do a really good impression of our doormand, Sonny. Okay. Ask BPD. It's really good. Yeah. The guy at the office?

Yeah, the guy at the office. The door man. Usually, usually the late night guy or evenings and tonight. Not the late nights always. But it's a good impression. We're not really impression guys and you have that one. Mm-hmm.

Yeah. Trave, so you're rooting for the Astros tonight? I mean, you have to. Because if you're so close. You have to. I have. to you. I honestly think that's the way it's going to go tonight. I think, you know, they, Astros are desperate. I mean, for some reason, I just feel like they're hitting is going to get

going tonight, but I'm really just rooting for my prediction now. I want your prediction to come through so bad because it'll never happen again. It will never happen again. No. In 2011, I got the elite eight final four and final two correct. Wow. In March Madness, it was Yukon beating. Is it a clotler? Over they beat. And I was in the top 0.001%.

There was still like 200 people that did it on ESPN, but I was there. And I was like, oh, maybe I'll do it again. Like, there's no way I'll ever do that again. Yeah. And that's how I feel for you. So I need it to come true for you. yeah but i think the braves things i know kind of feels like that like the energy in the stadium just feels like that's making

the braves win and i do think they can't go lighter like they can't be like we have a three to one lead and we're going to have an off day tomorrow so if we get some of our top arms a double day's rest we're we're going to be able to attack game six and seven as which the only reason I think that they may think that is because that's how the Yankees attack things. It's like, you know what? Let's save our top guys. And if we win tonight, we win. But if we lose, we're going to go into Houston.

Everybody are two best starting pitchers, our four relief pitchers, and everyone's going to be 100% ready to go, two days rest. It's a decent thought process. But I just wouldn't give the aster's any cushion. So I think they have to slam the brakes or slam the. the gas and just like go, go, go. But I, but I wonder if they do because it is a little nice to think, well, we got three to work with.

We only need to win one. I think I saw a snicker quote saying everyone but rights available, but also why would you say otherwise? Yeah. You think Wright as a kid, his family's answering machine was you've reached the right house at the wrong time. Please leave a message and we'll go back. Because I knew two Wright families and both had that.

Wow. I think that they go. all out tonight. I don't think there's anything held back. I think he wants to close it out, knowing that he has the off day is only going to make him do it more. Like, yeah, he's ready. It's a better thought process, in my opinion. Yeah. So who did the Astros, go to? Who did the Astros go to? They have Framber. He did well. His second start against the Red Sox. We'll see if he can make, do well again here. But I mean, they're looking for a little bit of length out of Framber, for sure.

You know, but I think for them the same thing. I mean, obviously it's an elimination game, all hands on deck. Yeah. Like, we could see some Odo. Oh, yeah, be nice. That sucks, because I can't root against Odo when he's in. I know, I know. I really root for him at that point.

Presley is pitched. He tossed 33 pitches. So, like, that's not good for them. it's not that's really bad yeah um yeah i just i i still think he's available but you know john smolt said it 25 pitches is kind of like that that point yeah where the next day you come back you ain't feeling the same like you can go 19 20 pitches and be okay but once you he said that was always what it was for him now presby might be a little bit different but 33 pitches a lot.

Elimination game, so you're going to call on him, but how much can you rely on him? I don't know. I've never really understood the Astros plan besides Framber and Garcia, and I'm not going to attempt to understand it even more going into tonight. Bramber's got a deal, and I like Framber. Yeah, me too. I don't know. Yeah, it is scary for the Braves to think about going back to Houston.

Yes. Go get the job done now. Get it done now. I'll still give you a ton of credit, Trev, but we can't, like, you know, brag about it for the end of time. No, no. It's actually,

I feel like I'll be a huge POS if I miss it by one game. It's worse. It'd be self-slow. If I did, like, a completely wrong bracket. Did, uh, worse than that? Did you see Glass Now and Brought's reaction?

Yeah, that's pretty funny. It's pretty good. They were, like, in disbelief. Yeah. And like Jake said, Glassna was trying to do the math in his head. And he's like, no, you don't have it right at all. First time I ever related to Glassna. He just attempted to do the shoddiest and worst math.

He just had to two out of, he was like two out of 30. Literally every team was the same team, then that's the right math. Oh, man. All right. Anything else? Are you going to watch this? What are you doing for Thanksgiving? But before that, what are you doing for Halloween?

I'll roast a turkey I'm a trigger for Thanksgiving but tonight we're just doing it's all kids stuff man hey and this is I'm going to say this to you James I signed into our IG

today and it came up as like a present like a birthday something maybe this was like the day that John Boy Media Instagram

started but anyway I took it as a birthday present, are you going to have a Halloween baby? And would you like that? I don't, yeah, yeah, I'd like it. Katie would like that too.

But no, I mean, first birth usually takes a couple hours, right? Like everyone says like five to ten once you get to the hospital. Or more. More. Yeah. And like she's not even having like contractions yet that like she can't walk or she can't talk through. So it seems like we're a little

A little bit out I think for your baby It's better not to have a birthday on Halloween You don't want to share holidays I know well it's not like a present holiday So I think that's fine But birthday parties you could always just have the Halloween party If it's anything like me

They'll like that Okay Because it's an excuse to have a party And like not have to feel weird About having a party I didn't like having birthday parties Dude he's born on on, oh, never mind.

Oh, so stupid. I was going to say if he's born on the fourth, he'd be 10-4 and it'd be really easy to, like, 10-4, good buddy, be able to remember his birthday, but. Dude, I was running through all the dates. I was running through all the dates yesterday and like 11-1-21 has a really solid memory pattern to it. Yeah, it does.

Yeah. So, November 1st, all Saints day. Yeah. We'll name it a saint. Of course you will. My dad was named Christopher because he was born on Christopher Columbus Day. It was like Daniel the whole time he was, they were pregnant. And he was born on Christopher Columbus Day.

And this was back when it's holiday. And he's Christopher now. It's a tough. It's a hard pivot. I'm going to be name dropping a little bit here. But I went to, I'm pretty sure I went to a birthday party with a saint yesterday. I believe I was there with Kim and Kanye's kids. Oh, really?

I had no idea when I was there. Wow. I told afterwards. Big time. I think one of their kids is named same What if Teddy just like beat him up It happens Little kids fight all the time

Yeah that's cool No he's a lover though Teddy Teddy's He doesn't do that What's he being for Halloween? That was my next question Skeleton with an axe Badass Hell yeah

Badass Easy enough All right guys Why don't mind defuse being a fire truck Katie built him a fire truck I love elaborate Not a fireman The truck

Fire truck I love that I love when people like do cool costumes like that. I never got that. For three months, he said he wanted to be a washing machine. So Katie was starting to build him a washing machine. And then he pivoted to fire truck, which, you know, in retrospect, makes a lot more sense

than a washing machine. He is dead set. He wanted to be a washing machine. Okay. I like the wash machine. Maybe there's like a slot for quarters. People put them in. I mean, you're making some money.

Oh, that's a great way to earn money on Halloween. Yeah. BD, what are you doing for Halloween? Um, live streaming, I think. Oh, yeah. Yeah, you are. When I was spooky up in there last night. Oh, nice.

Yeah. Yeah, you are in a good mood. Well, out too late for my liking. And I was the only person that had responsibilities in the morning. I woke up at 8 a.m. to move this morning. And now I'm going to be here all day because I'm not doing the Sunday traffic. So I'm going to just sit out there. Late night, then moving.

I already moved. We're done with that part. That's us. All right. We're good. Enjoy the rest of your day. Chat, enjoy the rest of your day. Love you, chat.

Thanks for joining us. Have a great Halloween. If you like Halloween, and you want to have a great one. If it's just a normal night for you, have a great normal night. Goodbye.